Logan will have more details on this, but I walked outside to get my truck from the tire shop and heard it from my front yard. So I made my brother drive around to find it and it kept going on and on. I guess the cop was there to keep people from vandalism or something? I don't know but here's a video. Apparently a ribbon cable shorted out.
On a related note, this morning after rehearsal going to second hour, I heard a Mustang Whelen do one whoop cycle and stop.
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:18 pm
by sirendude2012
Who knew a malfunction signal could be so effective?
Interesting malfunction. I've only ever seen sirens malfunction and not shut off after a test, but never start itself and not stop, not to mention sound a glitched signal.
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 3:20 am
by Stormsetter4
Just wait for the conspiracy theriests to come out of the woodwork:
"Haarp transmitted a low frequency signal that activated a warning siren".
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:58 am
by Bryan
Logan called me after he got to the EMA office and I tried to walk them through shutting it down remotely but since the encoder does not have the capability to do siren off they had to go unhook it manually.
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 2:26 pm
by dclarkct
mixerbd699 wrote:Logan called me after he got to the EMA office and I tried to walk them through shutting it down remotely but since the encoder does not have the capability to do siren off they had to go unhook it manually.
Probably the local activation keypad (on the front of the siren). I suggest they unplug it from the logic controller, that will keep it from activating the siren from the keypad and allow the radio activation as normal.
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 1:41 pm
by lilrags16
Kinda creepy... Mountain Home AFB up here has those, and at the air show went off for about 3 seconds
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 5:53 am
by Bryan
dclarkct wrote:
mixerbd699 wrote:Logan called me after he got to the EMA office and I tried to walk them through shutting it down remotely but since the encoder does not have the capability to do siren off they had to go unhook it manually.
Probably the local activation keypad (on the front of the siren). I suggest they unplug it from the logic controller, that will keep it from activating the siren from the keypad and allow the radio activation as normal.
Yeah that's what I told him, I've run into that a number of times here in Fort Worth. We've got most of the front panels on the 153 sirens unhooked and just the use radio and RS-232 port on the siren for activation/maintenance needs.
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:09 am
by Stormsetter4
mixerbd699 wrote:
dclarkct wrote:
mixerbd699 wrote:Logan called me after he got to the EMA office and I tried to walk them through shutting it down remotely but since the encoder does not have the capability to do siren off they had to go unhook it manually.
Probably the local activation keypad (on the front of the siren). I suggest they unplug it from the logic controller, that will keep it from activating the siren from the keypad and allow the radio activation as normal.
Yeah that's what I told him, I've run into that a number of times here in Fort Worth. We've got most of the front panels on the 153 sirens unhooked and just the use radio and RS-232 port on the siren for activation/maintenance needs.
Plus, if anybody breaks in there, they can't set it off.
Re: Yukon OK Whelen Malfunction
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 3:24 am
by dilloncarpenter
So if you weren't hitting cancel over and over it would just go continuous?
